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• plural of patriarch.

patriarchs

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1. In the Old Testament, the “founding fathers” of the Israelites: Abraham and Isaac, Jacob, and the sons of Jacob. (See Joseph and his brothers.)

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It was a blackly comic story of the pressures of the modern economy—and, in particular, of how they bear down on men in their traditional roles as providers and patriarchs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Although Italy's foreign ministry announced that the patriarchs had entered Gaza with 500 tonnes of aid, Pizzaballa said "not a gram" had yet been able to enter due to logistical issues.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2025

Pennington, for example, characterized slavery as “an institution of the dark age” while critiquing the “monarchs, patriarchs, and prophets of the South.”

From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2024

Bartholomew I is regarded as the “first among equals” among patriarchs in Eastern Orthodoxy and the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 2024

And as the fiftieth anniversary of Independence Day approached, requests poured into Monticello and Quincy from across the land, asking the patriarchs to share their wisdom and memories about the meaning of it all.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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